Episode 197: Lawrence Merlino

The Sit Down: A Crime History Podcast

Jeff Nadu

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Over the last year or so on Joey Merlino's podcast "The Skinny With Joey Merlino he has referenced his uncle and the fact that he cooperated with the FEDs in the late 1980's. Who exactly was his uncle Lawrence Merlino? Today I delve into his story, his connections to Nicky Scarfo and Phillip Leonetti and Lawrence's decision to eventually flip.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Sit Down, a Mafia History podcast.
0:16.4	Here's your host, Jeff Nadeo.
0:21.5	What's up, everybody, and welcome in to another edition of The Sit Down.
0:26.2	As always, if you enjoy this podcast, please make sure you leave us a detailed review and a five-star rating.
0:33.1	What's up, everybody?
0:34.0	I am Jeff Nadeau.
0:34.9	This is episode 197 of The Sit down coming off a couple of great
0:41.2	episodes over the last couple of weeks. And we got a couple of good ones coming up as well.
0:45.9	Today, we're going to talk about Joey Merlino. Well, not about Joey Milino, more about his
0:51.6	relative. Who's his uncle? What exactly do we know about
0:55.5	Lawrence Yogi Merlino? Melino has talked about his uncle pretty openly in the media on
1:02.5	his podcast and that he's a rat. We're going to talk about his lineage. We're going to talk about
1:08.3	Melino's career and when I say Marino Lawrence's career
1:12.2	and kind of how his end came, kind of a crippling end, all that and more. Before we get into
1:19.7	that, just a couple of things I wanted to get into. Got a couple of big episodes coming up,
1:25.0	a couple of interviews that I'm working on, just kind of working on
1:28.0	pulling the right strings and focusing on them. I also want to kind of guys let you know about
1:33.3	some of the things that I have coming up that you can see me on. And one of the reasons that I wanted
1:39.5	to do the Lawrence Molino show this week is because I was recently contacted by The Skinny
1:45.1	with Joy Milino and Snuff and Joey reached out to me. It invited me on their show. So it's kind of
1:52.4	interesting. This show you're likely hearing on Wednesday, the 12th, on Thursday the 13th. I will be
1:57.8	on The Skinny with Joy Milino. We're going to have a divisive, I think.
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